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Date:      Thu, 10 Dec 1998 20:38:53 +0100
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        FreeBSD-SCSI@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tandberg TDC 3600 on CAM, 3.0-R
Message-ID:  <19981210203853.46005@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812100134140.9789-100000@feral-gw>; from Matthew Jacob on Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 01:35:27AM -0800
References:  <19981210091512.30601@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812100134140.9789-100000@feral-gw>

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As Matthew Jacob wrote:

> The 'no compression' stuff is separate from probing. The tape driver

Sure.  It happens the first time the tape drive is attempted to be
opened.  The mode select failure is fatal however, so it wouldn't have
helped my colleague much to not fix this one. ;-)

I was merely suggesting that setting the quirk bit for `don't ask for
the compression page' could be automated, instead of depending it on
some firmware revision (as i did by now).  Iff the first mode select
in saopen() fails, and that quirk bit ain't set already, set the bit,
and retry the mode select.  If you're lucky, it gets through, and you
can remember it next time.

> I'm kind of inclined to believe that if < SCSI2 that VPD info is very
> likely not there (that's serial #).

I also think so, and i remember one comment from Kenneth (or was it
Justin, i eventually forgot) that they were seeking some solution like
this (but there wasn't enough time left before 3.0R was due).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

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